DRAFT TELEGRAM ON ORGANISING A THREE-WEEK FIREWOOD DRIVE, AND ASSIGNMENT TO SECRETARY[2]

Written:Written on September 27, 1921Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIII.

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ToAll Territorial, Gubernia and Uyezd Economic Councils,Regional, Gubernia and Uyezd Party Committees,Gubernia and Uyezd Executive Committees,Gubernia and Railway Timber Committeesand to, All Railways Superintendents

Theseason for hauling the firewood from the woods isnearing its end. Within two or three weeks, the autumn slush and
total lack of roads will halt the transportation of the
stockpiled fuel from the forests until the sleigh-roads can be
used. Meanwhile, the quantity of firewood available at the
railway lines at present and that to be brought out under the
plan of the Chief Timber Committee in the brief period of
transportation remaining fall very far short of the quantity
required for the normal operation of transport. There is a
threat of complete stoppage on the most important railway
lines.

Toprevent a possible transport disaster, the C.L.D. hereby
orders that, beginning from October 1, a three-week fuel
transportation drive should be announced involving the
mobilisation for this period of all facilities and means for the haulage
of fuel to the railway lines, and attaching to this work the
same importance as to the collection of the tax in kind.

Callat once a meeting of the economic conference, with
the participation of railway representatives, to adopt all
measures to secure the maximum transportation of
firewood over and above the established targets, in an effort
to increase the transportation to double the set targets,
keeping the consumption of fodder strictly in accordance
with warrants simultaneously dispatched, in no case
allowing departures from these warrants. Notify the C.L.D.
at once about the measures taken.

Amongthe railways in the most disastrous state are the
Kazan, North-Western, South-Western, Kiev-Voronezh,
Nikolayevskaya, and the railways in Siberia. That is why, all
energy, resources and facilities must be strained to the
utmost in the gubernias through which these key railway
lines run, in order to achieve the maximum results.

Vigorousexecution is hereby declared to be the personal
responsibility of chairmen of the gubernia executive
committees, chairmen of the gubernia timber committees, and
chairmen of the gubernia Cheka, in accordance with Soviet
and Party procedures.

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)Chairman,

C.L.D.[1]

Ipropose that this should be co-ordinated by phone at
once, to give us time to get this also by phone through the
Politbureau and the Presidium of the All-Russia C.E.C.
tomorrow, 28.IX.

[1]Thisis followed by the signatures of M. I. Kalinin, Chairman
of the All-Russia C.E.C., and V. M. Molotov, Secretary of the
R.C.P.(B.) C.C.—Ed.

[2]Thedraft telegram was heavily edited by Lenin: he altered the
date of the start of the three-week fuel drive from September 25
to October 1; instead of “increase the transportation by 100 per
cent” he wrote: “increase the transportation to double the set
targets”; and wrote the final paragraph about the personal
responsibility.

Appendedto the telegram is a list of a telephone poll on
September 27, 1921, on which the secretary marked off the votes of
I. T. Smilga, E. M. Sklyansky, N. B. Eismont, M. I.
Frumkin, A. A. Andreyev, L. B. Kamenev,  A. M. Anikst, V. M.
Molotov, J. V. Stalin, L. D. Trotsky, A. S. Yenukidze (for the
Presidium of the All-Russia C.E.C.) and V. A. Avanesov.

Thetelegram was published inIzvestia VTslKNo. 219, on
October 1, 1921. See alsoLenin Miscellany XXIII, p. 101.